USP has proven to be an excellent method to produce organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Nanoporous silica spheres incorporated with various organic dyes are synthesized by USP and utilized in colorimetric sensing arrays for the identification of aliphatic amines. Further usefulness of USP is demonstrated in quantum dot synthesis. Previously, using organic precursor solutions containing high boiling point liquids, highly luminescent CdSe and CdTe quantum dots were prepared. In this study, this novel synthetic route is further extended to prepare far-red and near-IR emitting ternary quantum dots.